New York Daily News:
In case you missed the Eric Garner story from last year, watch this video:
Garner died from what police did to him. It is clear from the video that police antagonized him. When they went to arrest him, the out-of-shape Garner didn't stand a chance. The fact they had to use such a violent technique (the chokehold) for a simple crime like tax avoidance (he was allegedly selling cigarettes without paying New York's exorbitant cigarette tax), only made this pointless death a reminder of the police state in which we live.
And that is where our story comes in:
Erica Garner, the daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner, ripped the Hillary Clinton campaign in a series of tweets Thursday after new campaign emails released by WikiLeaks showed how the Democratic nominee's staffers discussed the death of her father.
“I’m troubled by the revelation that you and this campaign actually discussed ‘using’ Eric Garner … Why would you want to ‘use my dad?” Garner tweeted along with a link to emails released by WikiLeaks. “These people will co opt anything to push their agenda. Police violence is not the same as gun violence.
“I'm vey (sic) interested to know exactly what @CoreyCiorciari meant when he said ‘I know we have an Erica Garner problem’ in the #PodestaEmails19,” added Garner.
Garner also tweeted links to hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta released this week by WikiLeaks that show internal communications among top Clinton staffers about how to best word an editorial piece on gun violence that was slated to run in the New York Daily News.Eric Garner's name is in the public sector, and the Clinton campaign has every right to use it in political discussions of police violence. It doesn't matter if his daughter supported their opponent.
“I know we have Erica Garner issues but we don't want to mention Eric at all? I can see her coming after us for leaving him out of the piece,” Clinton’s traveling press secretary Nick Merrill wrote in a March 17 email.
...Erica Garner endorsed Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary and has, on multiple occasions, used her Twitter account to criticize the Clinton camp.
Get over yourself Erica. Your 15 minutes of fame is coming to an end.
Returning to more Wikileaks stuff...
New York Times:
In the years before Hillary Clinton announced she would run again for president, her top aides expressed profound concerns in internal emails about how foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s own moneymaking ventures would affect Mrs. Clinton’s political future.It is nice to see there is at least one Clinton with a moral compass. Unfortunately, it isn't Chelsea running for president.
The emails, obtained by hackers and being gradually released by WikiLeaks this month, also are revealing how efforts to minimize potential conflicts at the foundation led to power struggles and infighting among aides and Mrs. Clinton’s family.
One top aide to Mr. Clinton, Douglas J. Band, noted in an email that the former president had received personal income from some foundation donors and “gets many expensive gifts from them.”
Chelsea Clinton accused her father’s aides of taking “significant sums of money from my parents personally,” of “hustling” during foundation events to win clients for their own business, and of even installing spyware on her chief of staff’s computer.
Read the entire article. It is rather enlightening to see how Chelsea worked to try and keep the Clinton Foundation clean, even against the efforts of some the slimier elements in it, such as Douglas Band. While it is possible Chelsea was simply being pragmatic, knowing that her mother would be running for president and not wanting the Clinton Foundation to be an impediment, I personally hope that Chelsea is a good enough person to recognize that unethical behavior eventually comes back to bite you in the butt, mainly because I suspect she will attempt a political career at some point.
Speaking of Democrats...
Washington Free Beacon:
Another day, another lie from the Obama administration...
The Obama administration misled journalists and lawmakers for more than nine months about a secret agreement to lift international sanctions on a critical funding node of Iran’s ballistic missile program, as part of a broader “ransom” package earlier this year that involved Iran freeing several U.S. hostages, according to U.S. officials and congressional sources apprised of the situation.Only 3 more months! Unless Hillary wins...
The administration agreed to immediately lift global restrictions on Iran’s Bank Sepah—a bank the Treasury Department described in 2007 as the “linchpin of Iran’s missile procurement”–eight years before they were to be lifted under last summer’s comprehensive nuclear agreement. U.S. officials initially described the move as a “goodwill gesture” to Iran.
The United States also agreed to provide Iran $1.7 billion in cash to release or drop charges against 21 Iranians indicted for illegally assisting Tehran. Full details of this secret agreement were kept hidden from Congress and journalists for more than nine months, multiple sources told the Washington Free Beacon.
Speaking of the election...
Politico:
The bottom is falling out of Gary Johnson’s poll numbers.I have considered mentioning McMullin before. I chose not to for the simple reason he cannot win the election for practical reasons: Johnson is on the ballot in 50 states, while McMullin is only on it in 12 states. God bless McMullin, and I hope he does pull off the win in Utah. At the very least, it might propel him to greater things in 2020. But in this election, he is not even close to the kind of spoiler Johnson could be.
The two-time Libertarian presidential candidate has shed roughly half his supporters over the past two months. His slide from nearly 10 percent in September to a recent polling average of 5.6 percent — combined with Hillary Clinton’s growing advantage over Donald Trump — means Johnson is increasingly unlikely to be a major factor unless the race tightens in the final two weeks.
The former New Mexico governor, along with other third-party candidates, could still tip the scales in states where minor-party candidates have traditionally run strongest. But despite Johnson’s large national profile, the third-party candidate who now has the best chance of swinging a state result is Evan McMullin — the former House GOP staffer running as an independent who is climbing in the polls in Utah, typically a safe Republican state.
But McMullin is on the ballot in only about a dozen states, while Johnson is on the ballot in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Green Party nominee Jill Stein is on 45 ballots, including D.C.
Unfortunately, Gary Johnson has issues which were obvious when he was running for the Libertarian nomination. He is temperamental, even if he does have a successful track record.
Consider this story:
The Guardian:
...[Gary] Johnson lashed out at Evan McMullin, the conservative presidential candidate who has leapfrogged him in [Utah] and now has a chance of becoming the first third-party or independent candidate for White House to win a state since 1968.Really Gary? You want to go THERE? You are using the same logic that Republicans and Democrats have used against you for months!
One recent poll showed McMullin almost tied with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in Utah. In contrast, Johnson, who set up his presidential campaign headquarters in Utah, is a very distant fourth.
“It’s a bit of a stretch to be comparing my candidacy with his,” Johnson said during a tense interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere But Washington series.
“He’s ensuring that Hillary Clinton will win Utah. You know what? He is what he is, and I begrudge no one for entering the race,” he said.
The Libertarian candidate added of his rival: “I think that he is splitting the Republican vote. And Utah being predominantly Republican, I think he’s splitting the vote, that Hillary will actually win the state.”
Back to the article...
The Libertarian was hovering around 10% in national surveys, but after a series of embarrassing interviews – including one in which he appeared not to have heard of the Syrian city of Aleppo, and another in which he could not name a foreign leader he respects – he is now languishing around 6%.Yes, because those things are so much worse than anything Trump or Clinton have been accused of doing. Americans are silly sometimes.
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